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A defiantly optimistic embrace of AI-generated “slop,” grounded in the faith that genuinely important new forms of culture will emerge from it.
His sloptimism was inspired by the belief that the most interesting work would become radically weirder.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
An outlier in this book, this is one word that we did not coin. Slop + optimist, coined by the artist and internet theorist Daniel Keller, who tweeted a list of slop portmanteaus and claimed this one first. This word and its definition appears here with his permission and input.
Future Words: A Non-Obvious Glossary of Terms That Don’t Exist (But Soon Will) collects all 100, each with its example sentence and coinage notes, from the bestselling authors of The Future Normal. Hardcover, October 20, 2026.